The friends, colleagues, and classmates of David Watson (Law ’87), former Editor-in-Chief of the Queen’s Law Journal, have donated funds to form a trust in his memory.
The purpose of the David Watson Memorial Trust is to promote the publication of excellent scholarship in the Queen’s Law Journal. The David Watson Memorial Award is presented annually for the paper published in the Queen’s Law Journal judged to make the most significant contribution to legal scholarship. The recipient is selected by the Queen’s Law Journal Awards Committee—comprised of the Co-Editors-in-Chief, Faculty Advisors, and the Dean of Law.
The Queen's Law Journal is proud to display the winners of the David Watson Memorial Award.
| Volume | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| Award Winner for Volume 49 | upcoming |
| Award Winner for Volume 48 | Robert Diab and Jolene Sanderson, "Reasonable Apprehension Under Mental Health Law" (2022) 48:1 |
| Award Winner for Volume 47 | Douglas Sarro, "Incentives, Experts, and Regulatory Renewal" (2021) 47:1 Queen's LJ 38, |
| Award Winner for Volume 46 | Noah Weisbord, "License to Kill: What Appellate Decisions Reveal About Canada's New Self-Defence Law" (2020) 46:1 Queen's LJ 97. |
| Award Winner for Volume 45 | Sean Rehaag, "Judicial Review of Refugee Determinations (II): Revisiting the Luck of the Draw" (2019) 45:1 Queen's LJ 1 |
| Award Winner for Volume 44 | Lisa Dufraimont, “Myth, Inference and Evidence in Sexual Assault Trials” (2019) 44:2 Queen’s LJ 316. |
| Award Winner for Volume 43 | Jennifer Peirce, “Making the Mandela Rules: Evidence, Expertise, and Politics in the Development of Soft Law International Prison Standards” (2018) 43:2 Queen’s LJ 263. |
| Award Winner for Volume 42 | Justice David Stratas, "The Canadian Law of Judicial Review: A Plea for Doctrinal Coherence and Consistency" (2016) 42:1 Queen's LJ 27 |
| Award Winner for Volume 41 | Paul Daly, "A Supreme Court's Place in the Constitutional Order: Contrasting Recent Experiences in Canada and the United Kingdom" (2015) 41:1 Queen's LJ 1. |
| Award Winner for Volume 40 | Paul Daly, “Canada's Bipolar Administrative Law: Time for Fusion” (2014) 40:1 Queen's LJ 213. |
| Award Winner for Volume 39 | Vaughan Black, "Conditional Forum Non Conveniens in Canadian Courts" (2013) 39:1 Queen's LJ. |
| Award Winner for Volume 38 | Sean Rehaag, "Judicial Review of Refugee Determinations: The Luck of the Draw?" (2012) 38:1 Queen's LJ 1. |
| Award Winner for Volume 37 | Dr. Chris D L Hunt, "Conceptualizing Privacy and Elucidating its Importance: Foundational Considerations for the Development of Canada’s Fledgling Privacy Tort" (2011) 37:1 Queen's LJ 167. Dr. Chris D L Hunt, "Privacy in the Common Law: A Critical Appraisal of the Ontario Court of Appeal’s Decision in Jones v. Tsige" (2012) 37:2 Queen's LJ 665. |
| Award Winner for Volume 36 | Hugo Choquette, “Translating the Constitution Act, 1867: A Critique” (2011) 36:2 Queen’s LJ 503. |
| Award Winner for Volume 35 | Amir N Licht, “Expanded Rationality: From the Preferred to the Desirable, with Some Implications for Law” (2009) 35:1 Queen’s LJ 245. |
| Award Winner for Volume 34 | Marc Chevrier, “Imperium in imperio? Des déséquilibres, du pouvoir federal de dépenser et du constiutionnalisme au Canada” (2008) 34:1 Queen’s LJ 29. |
| Award Winner for Volume 33 | Lisa Dufraimont, “Regulating Unreliable Evidence: Can Evidence Rules Guide Juries and Prevent Wrongful Convictions?” (2008) 33:2 Queen’s LJ 261. |
| Award Winner for Volume 32 | Claire A Hill, “The Law and Economics of Identity” (2007) 32:2 Queen’s LJ 389. |
| Award Winner for Volume 31 | Dennis R Klinck, “The Nebulous Equitable Duty of Conscience” (2005) 31:1 Queen’s LJ 206. |
| Award Winner for Volume 30 | Elder C Marques, “What the Law Does Not Allow: The Boundaries of Canadian Constitutionalism and the British Columbia Supreme Court, 1878-88” (2004) 30:1 Queen’s LJ 35. David J Doorey, “Employer ‘Bullying’: Implied Duties of Fair Dealing in Canadian Employment Contracts” (2005) 30:2 Queen’s LJ 500. |
| Award Winner for Volume 29 | Tom Flanagan & Christopher Alcantara, “Individual Property Rights on Canadian Indian Reserves” (2004) 29:2 Queen’s LJ 489. |
| Award Winner for Volume 28 | Professor Carys J Craig, "Locke, Labour and Limiting the Author's Right: A Warning against a Lockean Approach to Copyright Law" (2003). |
| Award Winner for Volume 27 | Jean Leclair, “Canada’s Unfathomable Unwritten Constitutional Principles” (2002) 27:2 Queen’s LJ 389. |
| Award Winner for Volume 26 | Constance Backhouse, “The Doctrine of Corroboration in Sexual Assault Trials in Early Twentieth Century Canada and Australia” (2001) 26:2 Queen’s LJ 297. |
| Award Winner for Volume 25 | Bruce P Archibald, “The Canadian Hearsay Revolution: Is Half a Loaf Better Than No Loaf at All?” (1999) 25:1 Queen’s LJ 1. |
| Award Winner for Volume 24 | David Wright, “Unions and Political Action: Labour Law, Union Purposes and Democracy” (1998) 24:1 Queen’s LJ 1. |
| Award Winner for Volume 23 | Mark D Walters, “Aboriginal Rights, Magna Carta and Exclusive Rights to Fisheries in the Waters of Upper Canada” (1998) 23:2 Queen’s LJ 301. |
| Award Winner for Volume 22 | Denis W Boivin, “Accommodating Freedom of Expression and Reputation in the Common Law Doctrine of Defamation” (1997) 22:2 Queen’s LJ 229. |
| Award Winner for Volume 21 | Douglas Litowitz, “Foucault on Law: Modernity as Negative Utopia” (1995) 21:1 Queen’s LJ 1. |
| Award Winner for Volume 20 | Norman Siebrasse, “Economic Analysis of Economic Loss in the Supreme Court of Canada: Fault, Deterrence, and Channeling of Losses in CNR v. Norsk Pacific Steamship Co.” (1994) 20:1 Queen’s LJ 1. |
| Award Winner for Volume 19 | Martha Jackman, “Poor Rights: Using the Charter to Support Social Welfare Claims” (1993) 19:1 Queen’s LJ 65. |
| Award Winner for Volume 18 | William F Flanagan, “AIDS-Related Risks in the Health Care Setting: HIV Testing of Health Care Workers and Patients” (1993) 18:1 Queen’s LJ 71. |
| Award Winner for Volume 17 | Joan Brockman, “Gender Bias in the Legal Profession: A Survey of Members of the Law Society of British Columbia” (1992) 17:1 Queen’s LJ 91. |
| Award Winner for Volume 16 | Alison Harvison Young & Roderick A Macdonald, “Canadian Administrative Law on the Threshold of the 1990s” (1991) 16:1 Queen’s LJ 31. |